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Morten Lund (LeZerp)

I saw this in the Metro 'newspaper' this morning. It is a reminder of the days before the internet, when if a multi-national corporation wanted to show what an exciting caring company it was, then commissioning a 'roll-and-move' boardgame was the best option.

I vaguely remember around the same time, that you could get plastic kits of off-shore oil rigs free with packs of cereal. Oh! How they wanted the kids to love their new found oil wealth!

Nothing eerie about this at all, it's simply a game based on something, which has as a hazard one that can occur in real life.

That's like saying that Monopoly predicted the recession.

Exactly what I was thinking, Jason.

You curmudgeons are overlooking the fact that BP is in the title of the game. The Monopoly analogy is entirely inaccurate.

A more accurate analogy would be a world wide shortage of coffee with simultaneous surpluses of indigo, corn, and tobacco all stemming from Puerto Rico's exports. If this event comes true, I hope the boardgame gets some media attention as well.